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New James Brown doc reveals how he helped make black beautiful with his ‘Say It Loud’ anthem

James Brown: Say It Loud” — a four-part series that premieres Monday and then continues Tuesday on A&E — the Godfather of Soul himself breaks down exactly why his 1968 anthem “Say It Loud — I’m Black and I’m Proud” changed the way African-Americans saw and spoke of themselves as “black.” “‘Black’ is a [bad] thing that was basically put on …the black man in America,” says an Afroed Brown in archival footage.“And hey, I’m black and I’m proud, but I really don’t want to have to say, ‘I’m black,’ [as if] you had to say, ‘You’re white.’ I want to say that we’re people and that we’re brothers and that we got the same fight.”But after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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